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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 21, 2022, 11:52:45 pm »
Eh... that sounds like the modem might be plugging into a proper phone line, actually? ADSL line or somethin'. The phone might not need internet to work, it's just the house's 'net is using the same line. Certain sorts of internet work like that, they're still faster than dialup, but generally not great otherwise.

It'd probably still work without power, you just might have to run the line directly into the phone instead of through the router.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: May 21, 2022, 11:48:52 pm »
Nah, I live in a small rural town. When I say snakes, I mean snakes, the scaly things that bite and inject neurotoxins or whatever :P

They like tall grass. Think pokemon, only instead of magical cock fighting you get to bury your pets!

... which, uh. Isn't exactly happy thread material unless you really don't like your pets, I guess?

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: May 21, 2022, 10:45:47 pm »
Eh, only sometimes. Overgrown lawnage can be a legit issue if you're in an area prone to certain sorts of critters (mostly snakes) or significant fire hazard or whatever. There's also stuff you can do to mitigate that issue outside of mowing, but... still. Not always pointless, just often :P

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 21, 2022, 10:43:04 pm »
*waggles hand* Folks in disaster prone areas? We have a landline phone that specifically functions without electricity at my place, because sometimes those lines stay up when the power is dead and the cell towers got knocked over (not a hypothetical, that exact thing happened back in 2018, and the line stayed up until passing traffic hit the low-hanging phone line a few weeks into recovery... only way we had to call out for a while).

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Other Games / Re: Coolest Rare Kind Of Magic You Wish To Use In Strategy Game, RPG, or Simulation?
« on: May 21, 2022, 10:12:55 pm »
You can do some pretty time-lord-y stuff, if you're willing to run with it. Easy one is to have chronomancy proficient critters unlock special events where future/past selves jump in and help (or hinder), and/or have weird effect stuff pop up semi-randomly (e.g. you're in a fight and a rock or arrow or something will occasionally just enter stage left for no apparent reason). Tales of Maj'Eyal fiddles with stuff like that quite a bit, if you're looking for relatively small scale mechanical examples.

Some games (Caves of Qud, iirc, pretty sure at least ToME as well, maybe more I'm forgetting) have temporal manipulation open up what amounts to (limited) save scumming -- in a game that already has a save/load feature, it could do stuff like allow retries on combats or an undo button or whatever, basically extend the functionality beyond its normal limits.

... though yeah, going serious ham nature magic would also be pretty great. You never really see that in games, even in ones that have dedicated nature factions... 'bout the only one I can recall that actually goes pretty wild on that front is probably Dominions, and for all it's pretty great it's also pretty abstract and slow. Gaming world could use more of that, especially if it ran with some serious bombastic, wild hunt, don't-piss-off-the-druid stuff.

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Other Games / Re: Coolest Rare Kind Of Magic You Wish To Use In Strategy Game, RPG, or Simulation?
« on: May 21, 2022, 06:27:30 pm »
Terraforming, but it actually enables unique terrain types. So, like, you're not turning plains into mountains or whatever, you're ripping a (possibly permanent) hole to the elemental plane of earth or somethin', or lighting an entire forest on fire with everburning flames, or just... etc. Be interesting, do unusual stuff, don't just make the mundane more accessible. You should be able to shatter the world and keep playing. You should be able to get real weird, like turning the countryside into crabs. Crab trees, waving fields of pinchy grass, scuttling deer with pincers.

Something I don't think I've ever actually seen is, like... legitimate isekai summoning, cheats and all, where hero summoning is a strategic resource that can be borderline or outright world breaking. Not just a strong champion or something, but a critter that's actually running off a different ruleset somehow or another. Honestly, there's a lot of stuff in magic heavy fiction (especially litrpg or isekai junk, which regularly gets as ridiculous as the writing gets terrible) I've just never seen leveraged in a magic heavy game setting (often for pretty decent reason, because lol balance, but still).

Magic enabling outside context problems (relative to the rest of the gameplay) in general could get neat (and/or wildly annoying), really. Enemy casts some kind of spell and suddenly you have to win a round of space invaders or lose your army. If your magic system isn't letting your players run a game of calvin ball, are you really trying?

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Other Games / Re: Blurb on Games that probably don't deserve their own threads.
« on: May 21, 2022, 03:41:34 pm »
Just from watching some vids, the grind doesn't actually seem that bad... if you use the tools available to crank the resource yields up hard. Bear-drops-500-hide hard. There's still grind at that point, but it seems much more tolerable.

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Other Games / Re: Games you wish existed
« on: May 21, 2022, 02:05:19 pm »
also its ost is pretty damn good, just throwing that one out there

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Other Games / Re: Games you wish existed
« on: May 21, 2022, 11:54:48 am »
There's occasionally other attempts at a word (or otherwise fairly freeform component) based magic system outside magicka. I'm, uh. Blanking on names at the moment. But they're out there. Iirc there's been at least two or three either stalled or still in (glacial) development roguelikes that was being built around it. Pretty sure there's some non-roguelike ones, too, somewhere lost in the desolate wastelands of the steam catalogue, heh.

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Other Games / Re: The "Forgotten the name of this game?" thread. Ask here to prevent clutter.
« on: May 20, 2022, 02:39:43 pm »
Probably Towns, if googling that metal name stuff is any indication.

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General Discussion / Re: Uncontroversial ideas thread
« on: May 19, 2022, 01:36:05 pm »
You're basically saying lobster, fresh veggies, and shrooms, there. I'm pretty sure plenty of folks would, in fact, want to eat those sorts.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: May 19, 2022, 01:32:58 pm »
Always, always prioritize pocket size for lower body clothing, yes yes. Ones I'm wearing can fit like a water bottle and a paperback novel in one pocket, plus keys and stuff. Tablet I'm using nowadays can't quite fit, but it's a close thing. You can hold an unhappy kitten in these things. Best feature of these pants, yes.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 19, 2022, 09:51:04 am »
Bundling a weed dispensary and a fast food joint together sounds like a remarkably good business decision, though, for what that's worth.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: May 18, 2022, 05:59:28 pm »
I'd assume it would be if you've halved one of your admins and are still using what's left of them to handle moderation. Most folks don't do somethin' like that in a calm state of being :V

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: May 18, 2022, 03:41:08 pm »
*waggles hand* It's risky, even with that. Generally with that kind of thing there's only a certain amount of people with access to the data that'd show the problem, so if the information leaks, well... there's only so many possibilities. If there's not fairly robust whistleblower protections in your locality (and there probably isn't :-\), it can be difficult to bring that sort of thing to anyone's attention, especially without screwing yourself over pretty hard.

I'm honestly not sure what the personally safest way to alert folks to that sort of mess is. Part of me thinks maybe whitehat hackers or somethin' like that, for a degree of separation from the leak, but... yeah.

E: Though with government/local audits, it's possible the data is public record (if buried or hard to access), in which case yeah, just tipping off media might manage something.

E2: All that said, if there's someone you're supposed to inform of discrepancies as part of your normal work duties... do that. Also document doing that, and if it's legal keep copies of the records involved showing the problem, so if at some point in the future it does get out and the folks doing it try to scapegoat you, you can just go "Ah hell naw" and show the papertrail saying it ain't your damn fault and you did exactly what you were supposed to do.

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